First records of two gobies, Eugnathogobius kabilia and Pseudogobius fulvicaudus, in the Indian Ocean from Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary, India

Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary is one of the unique ecosystemsin the State of Andhra Pradesh which is endowed with a complex of riverine, estuarine, mangrove, coastal and marine ecosystems with an area cover of 235.70 sq. km. During the faunal surveys in the mangrove forests of thesanctuary, two species of gobiid fishes viz., Eugnathogobius kabiliaandPseudogobius fulvicauduswere identified as new distributional record from the Indian Ocean. Pseudogobiusfulvicauduswhich had morphological similarity with P.javanicuswas confirmed using molecular analysis.